[Fuusmchat] Leaving the leaves?

[George Banziger]

Dawn,

    I agree with your conscientious concern about the leaves. I support
"leaving the leaves." They do a lot for insect development and safe harbor.

    Piling them against the wall would be a good solution. It will be a
living testimony to our environmental concerns.



George & Gwen Banziger; 740-434-5685; 740-434-3354 (mobile)


On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:53 AM Fuusm Office Assistant via fuusmchat <
fuusmchat at fuusm.org> wrote:

> Dear FUUSM family,
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> As I am writing to you, our hard-working, conscientious, and very sweet
> building steward, Wendy, is sucking all the leaves in the FUUSM courtyard
> into a bag for disposal elsewhere. Soon, she will blow all the leaves under
> the trees into a pile and haul them off, too.
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> Recognizing that leaves hold eggs of beneficial insects, and that leaves
> decompose to build hummus, and eventually, the soil, “Leave the leaves!” is
> the new mantra of ecologists.
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> I can’t in good conscience let the leaves that have fallen on FUUSM
> property be carried off with out objection. But neither can we leave the
> leaves on the city sidewalk, or on our steps or walkway or courtyard, where
> it would kill the grass. Would it be best to move those leaves onto the
> vegetation of the walled areas beside the courtyard? Or maybe under the
> tall conifers, to the right of the bike rack?
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> What is the ecologically right thing to do with fallen leaves in an urban
> area with no suitable “brushpile” site?
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> Surely we UUs want to do the ecologically right thing, and hauling off
> leaves is NOT it. But what do we do with them?
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> Thanks.
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> Dawn Hewitt
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> Office assistant
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> First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta
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